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salisbury n c friday june 12 1846 mr benton on oregon the administration and gen scott apostrophe to death i i f.u :.â€¢ â€¢â€¢ i : h death ! â– ; thai i - - â€¢â€¢ â€¢ that 1 " - - ii ti â€¢ â– â– â€¢ rr.bracc :.. do with ''*""â€¢ an i unto i and y me damn i -;â€¢ d '- <"â– ' a,:i ' : ' upward i .Â«'.'â– :- heat o on a mtfiriag c and Â», 1 ivar ihee not ! from the richmond whig course of the whigs the ungenerous ssault so frequently made upon the whigs in connection with the mexi can war by journals devoted to the adminis tration which seem to regard every unfriendly criticism upon the conduct of the president as synonymous with a want of attachment to the country in the prosperity of which by the way n ms per annum in advanflfc advertisements inserted at 9 l i accents for each subsequent ijwertion t â€¢<â– "â– ' ul t.'liar.-.l 25 pel cen higher . Â» j i , irvm ,._,, r:l n,ikevi,w kerotflyandthe flower .-, , ;<! lilcssm with winns â€¢Â»>...â– f^tm back again â– , nr .,| ofearth.^it plumes â€¢ ' h ' go we los : it .â– . 4 . , lo fa southern forest there â– p.vn 111 the bosom 01 . ., , a n-er the sweetest flower in 11 . â€¢ ., in leaves were it the jÂ»u at lonely regi ' m , w hitr Â»:â€¢.â– â– 'â€¢''â€¢' lim """' t"1'1"1 t0 lho â– , rldar j ll ] them and revealing as they did â– he fi(](i ld delicate droppings ol violet and k i phich hefi>cc like so much hidden r'a'lrv had lain within its bosom its odor â– " ,...,,^ an j . and no flower in all f i , ; ,,, m ,., ,] cmne near il for sweetness or auiy l excellence and in condition it was unllv alone i but it i ""! tlestined to be alone always hen came to it one morning in may a golden n.-iilv t rover am ng the flowersâ€”an an biciil r<>!i â€¢' of theii sweets gayly he plied l,i flight throughout the forest now here now b;,,^!1.â€”sporting about in a sort of errant uncon cin!i.-ii-s it vvae not long before b â€¢ inhaled â– i odor it was not long before he saw the â– , ii r white leaves and looked down withayearn n<r eye upon the rich droppings ol purple and riolet which nestled iu ii j bosom of the isola ed flower m flying around in mazy but still contracting circles in 1 gaze i .;' m the loveliness of the low er and grew m re and more enamored at each ninmei â€¢ " surely he thought this is a fl wer by itselfâ€”love's own flower dwelling in secretâ€”budding and blooming only for his eyes and denied to all beside it is my good fi rtune to have found it i will nestle in its bosom â€”' will enjoy its charms as i have enjoyed those of i lii usand others verily it r.ill better de tvc my embraces n even with the thought came lho quick reso lutidn and another moment found him lying lying close and pressing fondly upon the bosom i of the sower there was at first a slight ef fort i escape from the embraces t the intru der i!i flower murmured its dissent but the murmur 11 â™¦ â– < i awa v into a sigh and the sigh was inhaled as so much delicious jeff of eden hv the pressing lips of the butterfly lie sung to the flower of liis loveâ€”he the acknowledged rorer the unlicensed drinker of sweetsâ€”the economical winner of aflections with which he iliil nol share }.'â– < own he sun to the flower i t love ; and oh ! saddest of all the young flower believed the dishonest story which he told v p*rty and the war it is creditable to the american peopfe as patnots that the feeling o f p ir tv a merged in anxiety for the success of our arms and the vindication of our national honor in the contest with mexico this shews that there is a lively and ahidine attachment to the country which over whelms every other consideration such is mic mania for party measures party means and party triumphs that the friends of air polk even hoped that a dif ferent spirit might prevail m the whig party and afford political capital of fu ture electioneering this was evident from the action of democratic members in c o.iirre.ss but the result has placed the whigs in a position winch will command the admi ration ol all who read our history in fu ture times while the partizans of f r . polk in sustaining the war movements of the day/are following the lines drawn by party and some of them,perhaps looking to the reward that follows obedience the whigs are acting solely for their country with no inducements but those that arise from the promptings of patriotism and du ty such is the difference and verv ereat it is between those who profess to believe that the measures that brought about this war were all right and proper and those who think that they were ui.wise^mpru dent and reckless although the whigs are of opinion that the mexican war could and ought to have been avoided they will not fail to rally under the sacred banner of the union un furled to the breeze of battle : whose stars ami stripes remind them of victorious strug gles for freedom and pure antl manly de votion to the rights of man they come not to the array in the hope of personal reward or to pacify the spirit of party but they assume a attitude which com prises their rights as freemen and their duty as patriots whatever may be the feeling at present the incidents of a single campaign will banish prejudices of every sort whigs and democrats nalives and foreigners will soon forget that there ever was such a thing as political animosity or any oth er country save the one of their birth or their adoption and although the true american character will ever shine bright in the milder glories antl happier elements of peace it will not be tarnished in en countering the fatigues and perils of war ; nor unsuccessfully compete with any who contend for the iron crown of victory goâ€”brave volunteersâ€”go to the per formance of your duty and although we cannot quench the indignation that burns in our bosom against the promoters of the present crisisâ€”we cannot bid you depart by whatever party name you may be call ed or in whatever clime you were born without expressing the hope that you may enjoy the protection and blessing of pro vidence and the affectionate solicitude of your fellow-citizens wil commercial gence in downing street would at once lead to preparations fur resistance and retaliation the armies a d navies of great britain would be ration of war and the reception of the inlelli promptly p u t ;â€ž motion to avenge the outrage and we should be attacked at every assailable point xo one woold doubt at such a moment the duty of every good citizen to meet and repel the enemy iw.m any patriot-will any man who reÂ«ard s thercou u , ioi1 a , lna sheet l ' ncw ot our liberties and ho sc es in ihb usurpation by the executive of the war-making power a dangbrous infraction of that charterâ€”will any man who professes to be governed by the max im that while as a nation we ought to submit to no wrong so on the other hand we should demand nothing of other nations which is not rightâ€”hesitate even in the act of contributing his money or of shouldering his musket to con dema the or of tli administration by which the country would be involved itythe executive in an unjust war and these pecuniary and per sonal sacrifices rendered necessary ? surely not to argue otherwise would be to give a carte blanche to the presidentâ€”to break down all the checks an limitations which were do signed by the framers of the constitution as barriers against the encroachments of that offi cer and as safe-guards to the interests rights and liberties of the people i n truth jf t his dogma is to prevail the president is every inch a king and is invested with unlimited authority in great britain even where the monarch has the exclusive power to declare war and to make peace the commons may hold him in check if he attempt to exercise it capricious ly and unjustly by withholding from him the supplies necessary to its prosecution if then in the united states the president by his own act may plunge us into war and if when he demands supplies " of our commons to car ry it on neither the representatives of the peo ple nor the people themselves may scrutinize his official acts and if they believe that he has done wrong so say and condemn him while they defend the country if this be so our con stitution is indeed what it has been more than once styled " a nose of wax and our presi dent instead of being a republican chief ma gistrate with limited powers may at any time play the monarch on as grand a scale as the emperor of all the russias commencing now with the denial of the right to criticise and con demn how long will it be before in the abused name of democracy punishment will be inflict ed upon those who dare to impugn the motives or to censure the acts of its autocrat ? bkuner & james ) ii ?â€¢, â€ž f ,, . / " ktkp a ftjerk ut0h at.i yi.rn editors y proprietors \ l9 . u - u .. rulers do this a.vd libestt gen'l harrison t new series number 7 of volume iii the carolina watchman ami day after day he came to the solen em brace and day after day more fondly than . ever the 1 ', il wer looked >' rth to receive his visits she surrendi 1 her very soul to his keeping and her pure white leaves grew tiuged with ili pressure of his golden ringlets while liis kisses stained with yellow the otherwise : delicate ioa liness of her lips but she heed ed not she knew not of the change in her puri < 1 : while yet the embrace was still fervent the kiss still warm upon his lipsâ€”the return of the worshipper still certain to her altars vi i'.ut when was love ever certain .' not often where the lover is a butterfly there came in lime m change over the fortunes of the flower for there came u change over the habits of the wanderer lie gradually fell off in his atten tions i!i passion grew con and the ease of !â– â€¢-' conquest led him to undervalue its acqui sition bach day brought him at a later hour and his staj with the flower grew-more and more shortened at every visit her feelings perceived the estrangement long before her rea son had laugh her to think upon or understand it she alas lelt not of her own changes only had consciousness of his vii at length she murmured her reproaches ; and the grievance must be great when love will err so fondly as to complain li wherefore she said oh wherefore hast thou lingered so long ! \\ hy dosl thou not now as before vie with the sunlight in thy advances i 1 have looked for thee in vain the yellow beetle has been all the morning buzzing around me but i frowned upon his approaches the green grasshopper had a song under my shade and told me a dull story of the love which he had for rue in his bosom and more than once,the glittering humming-bird has sought my embra ces but i shut my leaves against him thou only hast been slow to seek meâ€”thou whom only haw longed lo see ah wherefore when 1 so much need ihee is it thus ' gayly the butterflj replied to these reproach es nor heeded the increasing paleness of the victim of his snares " over a thousand forests 1 have been flying each is beautiful as this u a thousand ii iwers i've been tending none less lowly tot sighl than thou howcould'st thou dream that with a golden winglet broad and free and beautiful lik â– mine in a single l>"i 1 still should linger of the world around un knowingaught .' no no ; mine is an excursive spirit for a thousand free affections charter ed wouldst thou have me like a groping spider striving still to girdle in myself is it was a murmuring and a sad reply of the now desolated flower aud she lived not long after she had made it : 'â€¢ \ i \ now j ] xlluu . mine errorâ€”my sad error having no wings niysenj to mate with the lover who hath win^s only alas ! that 1 have lov sd so fondly and foolishly ; for while thoii hast gone over a thou sand forests seeing a thousand flowers i have only known only looked and lived for a single butterfly drooping beneath her own shroud g leaves the victim had no more reproaches x 1 lie false one was soon away after this to another foresi ; for his ear loved not the ian piage ol complaint and he had sense if not feeling enough to know that tier's was uttered but too justly the flower noted his departure aÂ»d its laft sigh was an audible warning to the voting hud which grew into bloom beside it lhe wood-spirit heard the sigh and the warning and when the bud began to expand in the plea out sunshine he persuaded the black-browed ; appointments by the president by iiml with the mdvict and tmml ttf the senatt jlrstarrd that the senate advise and oori.-*rnt to tbe tallowing ap[mÂ»mtiiiriits in the army of tin tuiitd rftattt in the regiment ot moooted nti.-in.-n or third fhimrnt of dniroons as authorized t>y the act a|>]irÂ»rrd may 19 l846 pershur f smith of i^ui-sinim to u c..i..nÂ«-r john c fremont of the army to l>e lieutenant col onel george s barbridge of kentucky lo i major william if loring o florida,la bej^aptain vvinslow f sanderson of ohio lo be captain samuel ii walker f texas to be qaptain henry c v i>i kentucky t u cagtain george b crittenden f kentucky lo c ca|ttain stephens t m ison of virginia to be captain john s simonson t indiana to be captaaa j..;.n 1 (;.â€ž k ii at i;uii..is be captais b la m hogbes of missouri ;â€¢> be c;ij.tain stephen s tneker ot aikanaas to l captiin bentamin s roberts ol iowa !â€¢> !*â€¢ tir lieutenant tbomafl bwell ol tennesbee :â– â– be first l.ieuf-nant andrew porter of pennsylvania to t*r ti^t lieu tru ant michael k van dunn of michigan,to firel lieuten ant i ewellrn j^n - i f new y";k le be i'-t ljeateomtt noah newton ol < hi . <â– â€¢ ; â– i!|t thmasteoncan of illinois to tenant william w taylor of indiana to be fin lieuten ant andrew i linda y of mis t lieuten ant john <;. wa ker ol m - '"':-' 1 nanf < ( ,,. ar sg ; r-t|li.-u:'-nant thoma â– : -' '*â– j''|i lieutenant thomas g }'â€¢â– â– " tl sooth carolina to u areaad , uin of new york tobesecooaltea â– y i e â€¢â– â€¢ â– pennsylvania to be aream mi md lii iari nmit or m i to be second lie men murray m district of columina la be m riut i . i iitrnant francis s k 1 â– !**â€¢â€¢ julian j - r ond military storekeeper i _ i , ...... the reporter of the x y herald gives the following account of mr benton's great speech on friday oregon â€” the funeral discourse of 54 u deliberate onslaught of col benton upon messrs polk bucluman green lioir allen cass hannegan adams giddings and co â€” xo such line as i 40 col benton roso to address ihr senate and there was a general movement in the galleries lo sec him as well as to hear him he said that the bill before the senate was a proposition to extend our laws over the territory west of the rocky mountains without saying what was the extent of our limits this was a wrong proceeding he did nol think that this was the way to proceed cither in the settlement of the question or in the occupation of the terri tory he thought it the business of nego tiation and not of legislation to settle the boundaries of the territory and this was the reason he had waited and declined any expression of his views at length up on the subject but now while negotia tions are pending that we are about to legislate a jurisdiction over an undefined extent of territoryâ€”a proceeding which would at once forestall all negotiation â€” it altered the state of the case as events were going on we propose to establish a jurisdiction over a territory 3000 miles oil a power the extent of which we cannot determine ; and in i his condition of things he would forego all considerations of pro priety policy or expediency in a review of this question of the boundary lie pro posed to do it upon the principle of ask ing nothing but what is right and submit ting to nothing that is wrong in under taking this ungracious task his attention would iirst be directed to the exposure of several great errors in existenceâ€”errors at homeâ€”errors greatly pernicious and the origin of all our late difficulties at '< the head of these errors was the assump tion by the treaty with russia of the line i of 51 40 establishing so far the territory as ours up to that line on the one side and : as the territory of russia down to that line on the other this was the great error â– there was no such line established in the world there was no such line establish ed between the i nited states and russia none sir so far as that line was estab lished it was made as the northern li qe . not for the united states but for great britain lie repealed the declaration that so far as such a boundary was pro posed it was done to make it the north ern boundary ol great britain and not of the united states colonel'benton then commenced his researches into the records to establish this point lie went back to the time of peter the great referred to the growing power of russia and to the jealousy of england and the i fnited states against the extension of such power on the north-west coast lie next cited the efforts ol great britain and the u states at a triple arrangement between them selves and lhe emperor alexander in re spect to a joint occupation of the territo ry j uit alexander like a wise man act ing upon the principle that short settle ments make long friends refused the co partnership and desired only to have his own col benton then read from the treaties respectively between russia and great britain and between the i states and russia : both were substantially the same in fixing the southern russian boun dary at the line of 5 i 40 in the sea aud up the portland ana an arm of the sea across to the mount st ellas or the coast range of mountains thence along said line northward toward behring's straits and the frozen ocean there was no treaty with russia by which our title to fifty-four forty was claimed or acknowledged the claim was on the s'ue of another party â€” the learned senator in proof readaÂ°"ain from the treaties upon the subject there were also some maps upon which this boundary was correctly laid down there was a map by greenhow in which it was correctly copied in copying he had done it well but when mr greenhow undertook to decide upon treaty stipulations as de fining boundaries when he undertook to settle international disputes â€” his authority was tjuite another thing in copying this man he was correct he had put the line of 51 40 as it ought to be running it up from the sea along the portland canal â€” thence to mount st eiias thence in a northerly direction to the frozen regions col benton then produced another and later map with the line of 51 40 running straight across lo the rocky mountains dividing springs from their branches and branches from their springs ten thou sand copies of this erroneous map had been distributed by order of the senate through the country ; and from various sources hundreds of thousands of them had been distributed the line had been drawn full and strong from the sea to the rocky mountain when there was no such line the philadelphia xoith american says :â€” the statements made by our ahle washing ton correspondent in relation to the course pur sued by tlie administration towards ion scott cannot tail to excite apprehension and indigna tion among all parties the selection of gen scott to command the forces raised under the recont act of congress was announced in the " union and hailed in all quarters and l>v all parties with exultation and delight what has occurred to excuse the capricious inconsistency of the administration ? is not the hero of chippewa as worthy now as ihen ? it there be a reason tor a j which thus outra ros the na tion and her bravest defender it must be a se cret persona and political reason the indul gence of such motives at such a time is utter ly inexcusable this injustice to a gallant a we and iaiihi'ul officer has no parallel in our history and is rendered the more obvious by the magnanimous example set by jen scott in refusing to pluck the proffered laurels which have been earned by the heroic taylor tin effect ot such an act must be to discourage t â€¢â– army and to inspire distrust in the people il is a mow a heavy one at lhe service in _â– â– Â»''â€¢ ral the position to which general scon was called not only by the president to '">' '| lc voice of the wli le nation was daetn his vir tues genius an i experience 'â– â– ' ils l'ai 1 a chievements and his pres ml i rank and character the country vrhi not sanction the course of the president wm startled into jea lousy by the acclaim l which all parties hailed the selection ; tlie l to lead on i ur armies to victory rtow st>c *Â° dishonor and dismiss him ili design and attempt will kindle a tin Â°'" t ir indignation such a the countrj a n'/l witnessed fbr years the war is v'u l'lc rau^e f t'ie country not ot a faction ul he effort to betray and degrade the rmy through its chief in order to subserve unworthy political purposes m:j?t meet with universal reprobation the impression is abroad that mr polk is afraid to put jen scott in command of the vol unteer forces now raising for the united states mr p is afraid to have his own littleness con trasted with gen scott's whole-souled gallant ry and patriotism particularly as the general is a whig : e--governor jones of tennessee ha rai<ed a volunteer company in wilson county where he resides.and tendered their services to the present government ol the state fourteen companies numbering upwards of a thousand men had reported themselves for service at the last dates from nashville bad taste we are sorry that gen'l taylor has soiled the laurels which he so gallantly won by rail ing lhe fort at point isabel u fort ivk was thfs name jnven in commemoration ot mr polk'i exploits in the last war when he ducked hack wards and forwards across duck river lo dodge the drafts made for soldiers to fight their couu trv's battles ? why was not this fort called fort rinagold in commemoration of the heroic death of a gal lant soldier ? or after the brave may whose conduct mainiy contributed to our glorious vic tory ? either of these names would have sound ed like a trumpets blast lo every patriot while the present name is enough to make a man sick at the stomach fort polk ! ! where is my smelling bottle prtersbtrrg itddugeaeer it may safely be assumed the whigs as a par ly have at least as deep an interest as their as sailantsâ€”fully justify the following severe re tort which we find in the last new yuri ex press : " the ' union as the organ of the govern ment is making \ tsc f contemptible in the im putations it throws out against the patriotism of the w bigs and the whig p ressj m this mexi can war who is den taylor now leading o ur arms to victory and to glory in mexico ? a warm hearted staunch high minded henry clay w hig mr clay has not a warmer friend in the world one more devoted to him one who was more anxious for his election to the presi dency nor was there a man iu the country more opposed to the texas annexation or to the wav it v.'as doxk " who is maj ringgold whose life has just l>pen offered up in the battle-field ? another whig and a henry clay whig who was thoroughly opposed to texas annexation and tii e w \ v it was doxe we did not know col : mclntosh and the others who have fallen but from their gallant bearing in he discharge of their duty we have no doubt they were men of the same school tors and poltroons it is easy to see that the tre mendous power of making war though vested by the constitution exclusively in the represen tatives of the people in congress assembled may at any moment be exercised with impunity by the executive from whom for the gravest reasons that power has been expressly with held at this very moment indeed the pi*si * dent might plunge us into a war with great britain by a course not dissimilar to that which he has pursued towards mexico lct us sup pose that before the expiration of ih convention of joint occupation by which oregon is held by the united states and great britain in common the president should order a armed force to march to the extreme limits of the territory our title to wlilch he has pronounced authoritative ly and officially to be clear and unquestiona ble with a view to take exclusive possession and to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over it every man will at once admit that this would be an act of aggression which great britain could not fail to regard as equivalent to a decla ject and if every expression of opinion adverse to the policy of the administration is to he si lenced by the clamors of its partizans proclaim ing that those who pause thus to examine and to criticise the acts of the government are trai means by which the country has been involved in it and lo silence all discussion on the sub their opponents to pour out their treasure and their blood in defence of their country they are to be denied the right to express an opinion in regard to the character of the measures by which its peace has been disturbed . are the tax-payers and the fighting men to be gagged as well us to be fleeced and slain ? to what consequences might not this slavish dogma lead if a slate of war is to stifle enquiry into the we do not concur in so much of the forego ing article as seems to insinuate that our politi cal opponents are destitute either of patriotism or courage those qualities we respectfully suggest are monopolized by neither party and we do not question lhat the " rank and file " of both will always lie found promptly rallying un dor their country's flag whenever the emergen cy may demand their services is it not how ever most ungenerous and most unjust that the whigs as a party should be so constantly as sailed and held up to public reprobation as de void of national feelings and sympathies be cause a few of theirnumlierâ€”an inliniiessimal portionâ€”whose affinities are known to be with the abolitionists bai e thought proper since the commencement of hostilities on the mexican frontier to express unpatriotic and anti-national sentiments and opinions ? is it not equally un fair and preposterous to construe everv unfriend ly criticism upon the conduct of the administra tion in the progress of the mexican controver sy as in itself evidence of alack of patriotism and lo stigmatize those who question the infal libility of mr james k polk as has been done by .','â– locofoco editor as guilty of modified treason ?" has it come to this that although when war exists the whigs are as ready as the whigs are not spouters froth-makers declaimers rampant orators such as the 54 40 men are and all that clan and school of mock patriots but when any hard fighting is to be done for their country when men or money are wanted in the battle-field they are there not spouting nor making speeches but acting as gen taylor does if there are any cowards in the day of trial any distinguished for heir words and recreant in their acts they will be found among the frothy democracy when whigs make pledges they mean what they say which is much more than can be said of the dorr democracy men " commodore conner who has rushed to the scene of the war off the brazos as soon as he heard of it is we are told another whig jen scott who is to lead our forces in mexico has been a leading whig candidate for the pre sidency and has poured out his blood freely for his country line between the french and english pos sessions along the line of 49j indefinitely westward from the lake of the woods he was called again to refute greenhow's book and he did it because the endorse ment of a senator had entitled it to con sideration he said he would refer again to the records of the department of state which he did citing the correspondence upon he oregon question under mr jef ferson^s administration col benton had also a letter read from mr pitliin of new york of april iast to mr webster cm bodying the.-opinions of timothy picker ing ilutchin's and others in support of the line of 49f as being established by commissioners appointed under the treaty of utrecht col 13 next referred to a map being printed in london under the patronage of the prince in 17,'):j in fur ther support of the line of forty-nine a strong red line was drawn all the way through upon this map in the forty-ninth parallel col benton said that gentle men were thus peculiarly unfortunate in staking themselves upon a line which does not exist and against a line which does exist this third error then that the treaty of utrecht gave no authority for the line of 19 must go with the rest the puddle lane rebellion which has been ex cited all over the country and which has reached this chamber holding here in this chamber divided empire must now dieâ€”and die sir the death of the ridicu lous col benton said in conclusion that he had thus consumed his time for thai day in removing the rubbish out of his way when the question was resumed he proposed to go into the body of the , subject department including the correspondence upon this subject during the administra tion of jefferson and mr monroe show ing that our government had uniformly contended for 49 as our northern bound ary great britain could not forget these facts mo sir the growth of her states men was not so rapid as to forget the e vents of twenty-three years back and yet sir after offering her five degrees of latitude as her own over and over we prepare to squeeze her out of it entirely we are to go jam to 5 i 40 on one side and russia is to come jam down on the other and we are ready to go to war for it such is the position of the advocates of 54 40 we must close up and squeeze out great britain entirely we must not let her have room to put her lion's paw up on it even if it were small as the foot of a dove is this right is this decent no sir it is neither right nor decent the original idea was that oregon should be divided into three partsâ€”russia have the north great britain the middle and the united states the southern portion russia has received her portionâ€”ours was still in dispute the first great error then was that our title was good up to 54 40 lie had corrected this error and from this time henceforth there will be no such line as 54 10 and if so it will be known as the northern boundary of great britain the next error upon this oregon question was almost equally pernicious with the first it was pernicious because it was an error it was the unsubstantiated dogma that our title was clear to the whole of oregon from the undivisibility and unity of our title up to 51 40 that there was no break in it from this dogma of unity follows ihu corollary that our title is clear to the whole of oregon now sir if we come to examine it we shall find that in part our title is good and in part bad and that the dogma and the corollary must go down together there are breaks in the title to the columbia it is complete north of that it depends upon the span ish treaty of 1819 this single view breaks up the unity of the title there are two breaks in the first division and if we go further we will find there are two more the dogma of the unity of title was explodedâ€”our title was good to part and bad to other parts-â€”and it is the place of sensible men to examine all the parts in iheir relations to each other mr buchanan was a listener to this speech and seemed to be much edified mr pakenham looked on and said nothing col benton next adverted to the treaty of utrecht as establishing the boundary and yet our people had been so inflamed as to be ready to go out and establish that line by the sword marching all the way and sighing as they went along " dulce et decorum esl pro patfia vwri it is sweet and graceful to die for our country and yet sir after marching all the way for this line of 51 40 when they would get there they would find there was no such place the whole thing is imaginary intangible and is dispelled in to thin air all this excitementâ€”all this patriotismâ€”all this waste of words and time sir has been about nothing or is something too ridiculous to excite the bra very of the people to the point of war xo such thing ever existed sir you can't find it there is no such line it is ri diculousâ€”it is ridiculous sir and speak ing of it hereafter let it ever be said oh mountain that was delivered of a mouse hereafter thy name shall be 54 40 general laughter no such bound ary line was ever established as the con tinuous line of 54 40 : but as far as agreed : upon it was the northern boundary of great britain col benton continued his citations from official papers of the state spider to spin bis web and to frame his nest in the thick hushes that hung around it and ma ny were the wanton butterflies after this who coming to prey upon ihe innocent affections be came entangled and justly perished because of the giiardian net-work thus raised up for its pro tectiou

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salisbury n c friday june 12 1846 mr benton on oregon the administration and gen scott apostrophe to death i i f.u :.â€¢ â€¢â€¢ i : h death ! â– ; thai i - - â€¢â€¢ â€¢ that 1 " - - ii ti â€¢ â– â– â€¢ rr.bracc :.. do with ''*""â€¢ an i unto i and y me damn i -;â€¢ d '- ...â– f^tm back again â– , nr .,| ofearth.^it plumes â€¢ ' h ' go we los : it .â– . 4 . , lo fa southern forest there â– p.vn 111 the bosom 01 . ., , a n-er the sweetest flower in 11 . â€¢ ., in leaves were it the jÂ»u at lonely regi ' m , w hitr Â»:â€¢.â– â– 'â€¢''â€¢' lim """' t"1'1"1 t0 lho â– , rldar j ll ] them and revealing as they did â– he fi(](i ld delicate droppings ol violet and k i phich hefi>cc like so much hidden r'a'lrv had lain within its bosom its odor â– " ,...,,^ an j . and no flower in all f i , ; ,,, m ,., ,] cmne near il for sweetness or auiy l excellence and in condition it was unllv alone i but it i ""! tlestined to be alone always hen came to it one morning in may a golden n.-iilv t rover am ng the flowersâ€”an an biciil r<>!i â€¢' of theii sweets gayly he plied l,i flight throughout the forest now here now b;,,^!1.â€”sporting about in a sort of errant uncon cin!i.-ii-s it vvae not long before b â€¢ inhaled â– i odor it was not long before he saw the â– , ii r white leaves and looked down withayearn n' rth to receive his visits she surrendi 1 her very soul to his keeping and her pure white leaves grew tiuged with ili pressure of his golden ringlets while liis kisses stained with yellow the otherwise : delicate ioa liness of her lips but she heed ed not she knew not of the change in her puri < 1 : while yet the embrace was still fervent the kiss still warm upon his lipsâ€”the return of the worshipper still certain to her altars vi i'.ut when was love ever certain .' not often where the lover is a butterfly there came in lime m change over the fortunes of the flower for there came u change over the habits of the wanderer lie gradually fell off in his atten tions i!i passion grew con and the ease of !â– â€¢-' conquest led him to undervalue its acqui sition bach day brought him at a later hour and his staj with the flower grew-more and more shortened at every visit her feelings perceived the estrangement long before her rea son had laugh her to think upon or understand it she alas lelt not of her own changes only had consciousness of his vii at length she murmured her reproaches ; and the grievance must be great when love will err so fondly as to complain li wherefore she said oh wherefore hast thou lingered so long ! \\ hy dosl thou not now as before vie with the sunlight in thy advances i 1 have looked for thee in vain the yellow beetle has been all the morning buzzing around me but i frowned upon his approaches the green grasshopper had a song under my shade and told me a dull story of the love which he had for rue in his bosom and more than once,the glittering humming-bird has sought my embra ces but i shut my leaves against him thou only hast been slow to seek meâ€”thou whom only haw longed lo see ah wherefore when 1 so much need ihee is it thus ' gayly the butterflj replied to these reproach es nor heeded the increasing paleness of the victim of his snares " over a thousand forests 1 have been flying each is beautiful as this u a thousand ii iwers i've been tending none less lowly tot sighl than thou howcould'st thou dream that with a golden winglet broad and free and beautiful lik â– mine in a single l>"i 1 still should linger of the world around un knowingaught .' no no ; mine is an excursive spirit for a thousand free affections charter ed wouldst thou have me like a groping spider striving still to girdle in myself is it was a murmuring and a sad reply of the now desolated flower aud she lived not long after she had made it : 'â€¢ \ i \ now j ] xlluu . mine errorâ€”my sad error having no wings niysenj to mate with the lover who hath win^s only alas ! that 1 have lov sd so fondly and foolishly ; for while thoii hast gone over a thou sand forests seeing a thousand flowers i have only known only looked and lived for a single butterfly drooping beneath her own shroud g leaves the victim had no more reproaches x 1 lie false one was soon away after this to another foresi ; for his ear loved not the ian piage ol complaint and he had sense if not feeling enough to know that tier's was uttered but too justly the flower noted his departure aÂ»d its laft sigh was an audible warning to the voting hud which grew into bloom beside it lhe wood-spirit heard the sigh and the warning and when the bud began to expand in the plea out sunshine he persuaded the black-browed ; appointments by the president by iiml with the mdvict and tmml ttf the senatt jlrstarrd that the senate advise and oori.-*rnt to tbe tallowing ap[mÂ»mtiiiriits in the army of tin tuiitd rftattt in the regiment ot moooted nti.-in.-n or third fhimrnt of dniroons as authorized t>y the act a|>]irÂ»rrd may 19 l846 pershur f smith of i^ui-sinim to u c..i..nÂ«-r john c fremont of the army to l>e lieutenant col onel george s barbridge of kentucky lo i major william if loring o florida,la bej^aptain vvinslow f sanderson of ohio lo be captain samuel ii walker f texas to be qaptain henry c v i>i kentucky t u cagtain george b crittenden f kentucky lo c ca|ttain stephens t m ison of virginia to be captain john s simonson t indiana to be captaaa j..;.n 1 (;.â€ž k ii at i;uii..is be captais b la m hogbes of missouri ;â€¢> be c;ij.tain stephen s tneker ot aikanaas to l captiin bentamin s roberts ol iowa !â€¢> !*â€¢ tir lieutenant tbomafl bwell ol tennesbee :â– â– be first l.ieuf-nant andrew porter of pennsylvania to t*r ti^t lieu tru ant michael k van dunn of michigan,to firel lieuten ant i ewellrn j^n - i f new y";k le be i'-t ljeateomtt noah newton ol < hi . v all parties with exultation and delight what has occurred to excuse the capricious inconsistency of the administration ? is not the hero of chippewa as worthy now as ihen ? it there be a reason tor a j which thus outra ros the na tion and her bravest defender it must be a se cret persona and political reason the indul gence of such motives at such a time is utter ly inexcusable this injustice to a gallant a we and iaiihi'ul officer has no parallel in our history and is rendered the more obvious by the magnanimous example set by jen scott in refusing to pluck the proffered laurels which have been earned by the heroic taylor tin effect ot such an act must be to discourage t â€¢â– army and to inspire distrust in the people il is a mow a heavy one at lhe service in _â– â– Â»''â€¢ ral the position to which general scon was called not only by the president to '">' '| lc voice of the wli le nation was daetn his vir tues genius an i experience 'â– â– ' ils l'ai 1 a chievements and his pres ml i rank and character the country vrhi not sanction the course of the president wm startled into jea lousy by the acclaim l which all parties hailed the selection ; tlie l to lead on i ur armies to victory rtow st>c *Â° dishonor and dismiss him ili design and attempt will kindle a tin Â°'" t ir indignation such a the countrj a n'/l witnessed fbr years the war is v'u l'lc rau^e f t'ie country not ot a faction ul he effort to betray and degrade the rmy through its chief in order to subserve unworthy political purposes m:j?t meet with universal reprobation the impression is abroad that mr polk is afraid to put jen scott in command of the vol unteer forces now raising for the united states mr p is afraid to have his own littleness con trasted with gen scott's whole-souled gallant ry and patriotism particularly as the general is a whig : e--governor jones of tennessee ha raipen offered up in the battle-field ? another whig and a henry clay whig who was thoroughly opposed to texas annexation and tii e w \ v it was doxe we did not know col : mclntosh and the others who have fallen but from their gallant bearing in he discharge of their duty we have no doubt they were men of the same school tors and poltroons it is easy to see that the tre mendous power of making war though vested by the constitution exclusively in the represen tatives of the people in congress assembled may at any moment be exercised with impunity by the executive from whom for the gravest reasons that power has been expressly with held at this very moment indeed the pi*si * dent might plunge us into a war with great britain by a course not dissimilar to that which he has pursued towards mexico lct us sup pose that before the expiration of ih convention of joint occupation by which oregon is held by the united states and great britain in common the president should order a armed force to march to the extreme limits of the territory our title to wlilch he has pronounced authoritative ly and officially to be clear and unquestiona ble with a view to take exclusive possession and to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over it every man will at once admit that this would be an act of aggression which great britain could not fail to regard as equivalent to a decla ject and if every expression of opinion adverse to the policy of the administration is to he si lenced by the clamors of its partizans proclaim ing that those who pause thus to examine and to criticise the acts of the government are trai means by which the country has been involved in it and lo silence all discussion on the sub their opponents to pour out their treasure and their blood in defence of their country they are to be denied the right to express an opinion in regard to the character of the measures by which its peace has been disturbed . are the tax-payers and the fighting men to be gagged as well us to be fleeced and slain ? to what consequences might not this slavish dogma lead if a slate of war is to stifle enquiry into the we do not concur in so much of the forego ing article as seems to insinuate that our politi cal opponents are destitute either of patriotism or courage those qualities we respectfully suggest are monopolized by neither party and we do not question lhat the " rank and file " of both will always lie found promptly rallying un dor their country's flag whenever the emergen cy may demand their services is it not how ever most ungenerous and most unjust that the whigs as a party should be so constantly as sailed and held up to public reprobation as de void of national feelings and sympathies be cause a few of theirnumlierâ€”an inliniiessimal portionâ€”whose affinities are known to be with the abolitionists bai e thought proper since the commencement of hostilities on the mexican frontier to express unpatriotic and anti-national sentiments and opinions ? is it not equally un fair and preposterous to construe everv unfriend ly criticism upon the conduct of the administra tion in the progress of the mexican controver sy as in itself evidence of alack of patriotism and lo stigmatize those who question the infal libility of mr james k polk as has been done by .','â– locofoco editor as guilty of modified treason ?" has it come to this that although when war exists the whigs are as ready as the whigs are not spouters froth-makers declaimers rampant orators such as the 54 40 men are and all that clan and school of mock patriots but when any hard fighting is to be done for their country when men or money are wanted in the battle-field they are there not spouting nor making speeches but acting as gen taylor does if there are any cowards in the day of trial any distinguished for heir words and recreant in their acts they will be found among the frothy democracy when whigs make pledges they mean what they say which is much more than can be said of the dorr democracy men " commodore conner who has rushed to the scene of the war off the brazos as soon as he heard of it is we are told another whig jen scott who is to lead our forces in mexico has been a leading whig candidate for the pre sidency and has poured out his blood freely for his country line between the french and english pos sessions along the line of 49j indefinitely westward from the lake of the woods he was called again to refute greenhow's book and he did it because the endorse ment of a senator had entitled it to con sideration he said he would refer again to the records of the department of state which he did citing the correspondence upon he oregon question under mr jef ferson^s administration col benton had also a letter read from mr pitliin of new york of april iast to mr webster cm bodying the.-opinions of timothy picker ing ilutchin's and others in support of the line of 49f as being established by commissioners appointed under the treaty of utrecht col 13 next referred to a map being printed in london under the patronage of the prince in 17,'):j in fur ther support of the line of forty-nine a strong red line was drawn all the way through upon this map in the forty-ninth parallel col benton said that gentle men were thus peculiarly unfortunate in staking themselves upon a line which does not exist and against a line which does exist this third error then that the treaty of utrecht gave no authority for the line of 19 must go with the rest the puddle lane rebellion which has been ex cited all over the country and which has reached this chamber holding here in this chamber divided empire must now dieâ€”and die sir the death of the ridicu lous col benton said in conclusion that he had thus consumed his time for thai day in removing the rubbish out of his way when the question was resumed he proposed to go into the body of the , subject department including the correspondence upon this subject during the administra tion of jefferson and mr monroe show ing that our government had uniformly contended for 49 as our northern bound ary great britain could not forget these facts mo sir the growth of her states men was not so rapid as to forget the e vents of twenty-three years back and yet sir after offering her five degrees of latitude as her own over and over we prepare to squeeze her out of it entirely we are to go jam to 5 i 40 on one side and russia is to come jam down on the other and we are ready to go to war for it such is the position of the advocates of 54 40 we must close up and squeeze out great britain entirely we must not let her have room to put her lion's paw up on it even if it were small as the foot of a dove is this right is this decent no sir it is neither right nor decent the original idea was that oregon should be divided into three partsâ€”russia have the north great britain the middle and the united states the southern portion russia has received her portionâ€”ours was still in dispute the first great error then was that our title was good up to 54 40 lie had corrected this error and from this time henceforth there will be no such line as 54 10 and if so it will be known as the northern boundary of great britain the next error upon this oregon question was almost equally pernicious with the first it was pernicious because it was an error it was the unsubstantiated dogma that our title was clear to the whole of oregon from the undivisibility and unity of our title up to 51 40 that there was no break in it from this dogma of unity follows ihu corollary that our title is clear to the whole of oregon now sir if we come to examine it we shall find that in part our title is good and in part bad and that the dogma and the corollary must go down together there are breaks in the title to the columbia it is complete north of that it depends upon the span ish treaty of 1819 this single view breaks up the unity of the title there are two breaks in the first division and if we go further we will find there are two more the dogma of the unity of title was explodedâ€”our title was good to part and bad to other parts-â€”and it is the place of sensible men to examine all the parts in iheir relations to each other mr buchanan was a listener to this speech and seemed to be much edified mr pakenham looked on and said nothing col benton next adverted to the treaty of utrecht as establishing the boundary and yet our people had been so inflamed as to be ready to go out and establish that line by the sword marching all the way and sighing as they went along " dulce et decorum esl pro patfia vwri it is sweet and graceful to die for our country and yet sir after marching all the way for this line of 51 40 when they would get there they would find there was no such place the whole thing is imaginary intangible and is dispelled in to thin air all this excitementâ€”all this patriotismâ€”all this waste of words and time sir has been about nothing or is something too ridiculous to excite the bra very of the people to the point of war xo such thing ever existed sir you can't find it there is no such line it is ri diculousâ€”it is ridiculous sir and speak ing of it hereafter let it ever be said oh mountain that was delivered of a mouse hereafter thy name shall be 54 40 general laughter no such bound ary line was ever established as the con tinuous line of 54 40 : but as far as agreed : upon it was the northern boundary of great britain col benton continued his citations from official papers of the state spider to spin bis web and to frame his nest in the thick hushes that hung around it and ma ny were the wanton butterflies after this who coming to prey upon ihe innocent affections be came entangled and justly perished because of the giiardian net-work thus raised up for its pro tectiou